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Quotes

• "I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework--the problems seemed to be a little harder than usual."
  
  - George Dantzig


• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
  
  - Arthur C. Clarke


• "I don't try to predict the future--I try to prevent it."
  
  - Ray Bradbury


• "Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."
  
  - Bull Durham


• "Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper."
  
  - David Lynch


• "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."
  
  - Ronald H. Coase


• "Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race "looking out for its best interests," as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief."
  
  - Nassim Nicholas Taleb


• "It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time."
  
  - Clayton M. Christensen


• "What matters is not who does good but whether good is done; and the measure of how much good you achieve is the difference between what happens as a result of your actions and what would have happened anyway."
  
  - William MacAskill


• "Biology enables, culture forbids."
  
  - Yuval Noah Harari


• "What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily our future experience."
  
  - Daniel Kahneman


• "What feels like play to you but looks like work to others?"
  
  - Naval Ravikant


• "Ever notice how other people's stuff is shit, but your shit is stuff?"
  
  - George Carlin


• "The key is to develop a creative habit. If you do what inspires you every single day, trust that you're going to become who you need to be and that your creation will become what it needs to be along the way."
  
  - Brandon Stanton


• "Does this spark joy?"
  
  - Marie Kondo


• "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."
  
  - Greek Proverb


• "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"
  
  - Peter Thiel


• "Clear writing produces clearer thoughts."
  
  - Paul Romer


• "Just because you're a bird doesn't mean you're an ornithologist."
  
  - David Epstein


• "You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."
  
  - Timothy Leary


• "My breath is my strength."
  
  - Tevad Hem


• "Eight parts of a full stomach sustain the man; the other two sustain the doctor."
  
  - Japanese proverb


• "To love and to work are the twin capacities that mark full maturity."
  
  - Sigmund Freud


• "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
  
  - Michael Pollan


• "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."
  
  - Shunryu Suzuki


• "Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm."
  
  - Bill Walsh


• "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
  
  - Theodore Roosevelt


• "What are the opportunities for learning and growth today? For myself? For the people around me? When, where and how will I embark on my plan?"
  
  - Carol Dweck


• "More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data."
  
  - Peter Norvig


• "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
  
  - Machine Learning


• "Every generation has perceived the limits to growth that finite resources and undesirable side effects would pose if no new recipes or ideas were discovered. And every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new recipes and ideas. We consistently fail to grasp how many ideas remain to be discovered. The difficulty is the same one we have with compounding. Possibilities do not add up. They multiply."
  
  - Paul Romer


• "If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!"
  
  - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs